1. Primary Source Summary Project
MUH Music in the United States
11/13/2018
Primary Source Summary Project
Instructions Remain Posted on course website
Paper due on Monday, 19 Feb 5:00 pm - Five Days From Today
REMINDER: No class meeting on Friday, 16 Feb 18. Use for project.
DAY 16 (14 Feb 18)

2. Friendly Alert
Instructions for the “Music Description Project” are now posted on the course web site

3. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
11/13/2018
Chapter Six
“The Ethiopian Business” : Minstrelsy and Popular Song through the Civil War
DAY 16 (14 Feb 18)

4. Civil War Songs Southern (Confederacy) Northern (Union)
Images of Homeland (Sentimental)
Unofficial Anthem
"Dixie's Land" ( ) Minstrel song! Dan Emmett
"Dixie" (CW Re-enacters)
Dixie (Hastings [NE] College Choir, 2009)
Ole Miss Band (2009) - TSSRA - tradition ended in 2016
Elvis (1973)
Northern (Union)
Religious Imagery (Abolitionist)
Recruiting Song
George F. Root, composer
"The Battle Cry of Freedom" (1862) (LG 6.5)
"Battle Hymn of the Republic“ (1862) - Biblical Imagery

5. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
11/13/2018
Chapter Seven
“After the Ball” : Band Music, Gospel Hymns, and Popular songs after the Civil War
DAY 16 (14 Feb 18)

6. Civil War (Brass) Bands

7. Patrick S. Gilmore b. 1829 (Ireland) To Boston (1849)
Cornetist and band leader
“Gilmore’s Band” (1858-9)
Civil War Band
Peace Jubilee (1869)
22nd Regimental Band (1873) - toured Europe and US
World Peace Jubilee (1872)
d (St. Louis)

8. Gilmore’s Band Shift to woodwind / brass / percussion ensemble
Arrangements of classical works
GILMORE - "22nd Regiment March"

9. 1872 World Peace Jubilee Lengthy programs Massed bands
20,000 choristers
“Anvil” Chorus
1872 World Peace Jubilee

10. “Business Bands” Professional Concert Bands
50+ members (winds, brass & percussion)
Gilmore’s Band – first?
Sousa Band – most famous
Others – Giuseppe Creatore, Patrick Conway, Frederick Innes, Arthur Pryor, etc.
Touring Ensembles (US & the World)
Recording – early cylinders and records (Sousa opposed “mechanical music”)

11. John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) Father: Marine Band musician
JPS – Marine Band apprentice
1880 – Leader of Marine Band
1892 – Professional Concert Band (rest of life)
Fairs, Summer Parks, Tours
Highest Musical Standards
Classical Transcriptions, Solos, Marches, New Works

12. The Sousa Band